“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”

“A good fight scene is really a good love scene.”

“Accidents. It's all about the accidents.”

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”

“You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”

“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my lif...”

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”

“To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still rememb...”

“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”